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a mass of abnormal cells that develops when a cancerous cels divide & grow uncontrollably.
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tumor
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Main pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants
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chlorophyll
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completes the process of cell divison. during , cytoplasm divides, distributiong the organelles into each of the 2 new cells
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Cytokinesis
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colored chemical compounds that absorb light
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pigments
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use of drugs to kill cancer cells
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Chemotherapy
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The process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight & uses it to make food.
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Photosynthesis
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when the cell makes a copy of its DNA
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replication
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Where Carbon Dioxide enters the plant in these small openings on the underside of the leaf
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stomata
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indentical rod or strand of the chroosome
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chromatid
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an organism that cant make its own food.
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heterotroph
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disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollably, damaging the parts of the body around them.
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Cancer
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the period before cell division occurs. when the cell grows to its mature size makes a copy of its DNA and prepares to divide into 2 cells
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interphase
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second stage of the cell cycle. one copy of the DNA is distributed into each of the two daughter cells
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Mitosis
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when damage causes a change in the DNA
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mutation
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an organism that makes its own food.
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autotroph
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regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo
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cell cycle
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an energy releasing process that doesnt require oxygen.
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fermentation
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THe process by which cells "withdraw" energy from glucose
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respiration
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double rod of condensed chromatin
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chromosome
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